Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development : Country Summary Report for Brazil

Lindelow, Magnus ; Araujo, Edson C.

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES;    ACCESS TO TREATMENT;    ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS;    AVAILABILITY OF DRUGS;    CANCER;   

RP-ID  :  91214

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Over the last 20 years, Brazil has seenprofound economic, political, and demographic changes. Aftera period of military dictatorship (from 1964 to 1985),political and economic stability was achieved in themid-1990s. The country has urbanized, improved access towater and sanitation, achieved solid economic growth, andreduced income inequality.It was one of the first LatinAmerican countries to establish universal health coverage(UHC) as a fundamental right, based on the principles thathealth care is a duty of the state and should be free at thepoint of use. The reform in the late 1980s created theUnified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS) andwas based on the principle that health care should be freeat the point of use to all Brazilian citizens.